Bessie Smith Blues Queen

Tracklist

• 1
  Down Hearted Blues
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 2
  'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
  3:27
• 3
  My Sweetie Went Away
  3:11
• 4
  Weeping Willow Blues
  3:11
• 5
  St. Louis Blues
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Reckless Blues
  3:06
• 7
  Sobbin' Hearted Blues
  3:01
• 8
  Cold in Hand Blues
  3:15
• 9
  You'd Been a Good Ole Wagon
  3:31
• 10
  Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
  3:12
• 11
  The Yellow Dog Blues
  3:03
• 12
  Nashville Woman's Blues
  3:46
• 13
  Careless Love Blues
  3:28
• 14
  J.C. Holmes Blues
  3:06
• 15
  I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Young Woman's Blues
  3:08
• 17
  Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
  3:08
• 18
  Mean Old Bedbug Blues
  3:11
• 19
  Empty Bed Blues (Part 1)
  3:03
• 20
  Empty Bed Blues (Part 2)
  3:22
• 21
  Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
  2:57
  5.0 ★
• 22
  Black Mountain Blues
  3:08
• 23
  Do Your Duty
  3:27
• 24
  Gimme a Pigfoot
  3:28

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Release credits

• Benny Goodman
  clarinet [24]
• Bessie Smith
  vocal [1, 5, 15-16, 21, 23-24]
• Billy Taylor Sr.
  double bass [23-24]
• Bobby Johnson
  banjo [24], guitar [23-24]
• Buck Washington
  piano [23-24]
• Buster Bailey
  clarinet [16]
• Charlie Green
  trombone [15]
• Clarence Williams
  piano [1, 21]
• Cyrus St. Clair
  tuba [21]
• Ed Allen
  cornet [21]
• Fletcher Henderson
  piano [15-16]
• Frankie Newton
  trumpet [23-24]
• Fred Longshaw
  reed organ [5]
• Garvin Bushell
  alto saxophone [21]
• Greely Walton
  tenor saxophone [21]
• Jack Teagarden
  trombone [23-24]
• Joe Smith
  cornet [16]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [23-24]
• Louis Armstrong
  cornet [5, 15]
• Show all credits (19)

Issues

• B
  Bessie Smith Blues Queen

  CD
  2011